Just finished watching a japanese film - Love and honour on okto. It was about this lower-classed samurai who was working as a food-taster (to ensure that the food given to the samurai Lord is not poisoned) and had the misfortune to eat something which was poisonous when taken out of season. He grew blind after that. The movie continues to illustrate what happened to them subsequently. I felt that the acting was very well done, 'cos the setting of the movie was in the era of the samurai, where harakiri and honour is very much spoken about. that people will kill their wives, or themselves, should they feel that their honour is being stained. it was interesting to see how the actors and actresses managed to portray their emotions even when the emotions of that period of time is much more subdued.
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